Reiki for Focus
In a recent remote Reiki session, the client asked for an improvement in focus. Her exact words, “whatever you’d call the opposite of super- swirly ADD brain.”
I think “focus” is precisely what I’d call that.
After the session, I reported that when I first tuned in, it seemed like the energy was ping-ponging around in her head. As the treatment progressed, it settled down quite a bit and I predicted that focus would indeed be improved.
The next day I got a text. (I received permission, btw, to share all of this with you folks. I do take client confidentiality seriously.)
“I have to understand what you did to my head… so I can do it.” She’s also a Reiki practitioner and has full access to the technique that I used.
I love when the results of a session are so very palpable. She said she was in the shower and thought “OMG, I feel calm”. Apparently, the contrast was quite vivid.
I also love when teaching moments present themselves so clearly.
I think she was expecting some sort of elaborate, preconceived plan I have in place for dealing with ping- ponging mental energy.
That would be incorrect.
I activated Reiki. Set an intention for improved focus. And applied it to the third eye center, the chakra for clear seeing, and the mind. I used all the symbols, as I usually do when starting a session, and dropped an extra mental/emotional symbol into her head.
Years of practice doing sessions as well as quieting my own mind is what allowed me to tune in to the energy so I could share what I noticed, but the overall format of this session, and every session actually, is simple. Activation, intention, application.
People tend to think it’s more complicated than that. Happily, it’s not! That’s what allows us to treat all kinds of complex conditions without understanding what’s causing them.
(Often the desire to understand prevents us from doing the work. I suspect it’s one of the ego-mind’s tricks to keep us from creating change. The ego fears change, even if it is for the good.)
I went on to explain that I think this calmness would have emerged as the by-product of the treatment even if it hadn’t been a specific intention. She has some medical stuff going on which very likely had the sympathetic nervous system on high alert.
Focusing when your body thinks it’s in danger is just impossible. While she wasn’t in mortal danger in that moment, the survival mechanism isn’t that nuanced. It’s either on or off, and evolution has favored the on button. Survival becomes the overarching goal and everything else gets put on the back burner.
Reiki miraculously soothes this survival mechanism and allows focus to come back online. The symbol in the third eye center was just icing on the cake.
What I especially want to convey here is to not get tripped up trying to figure out how to treat any condition. You don’t need to know. Reiki knows! It’s your job to turn the energy on and point it in the desired direction.
This formula: activation, intention, application is useful for all sorts of missions. Pain, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and more. I’ve yet to meet a condition that didn’t fit the equation.
While Reiki can indeed be that simple, I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned over the past 20+ years about pointing efforts towards the origin of the problem rather than the symptoms. Supporting practitioners beyond the classroom is the goal of this publication and I hope you’ll subscribe to stay in the loop.